Bridging the chasm : a survey of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms -- How not to be an empire : on conciliatory multiculturalism -- Toward a comparative critique : metaphor and dissenting nationalism in Alex Kuo -- A new politics of faith : Zhang Chengzhi's Xinling shi and Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: the art of war -- Impersonal intimacy : Yan Geling's Fusang and its English translation.